“There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet… — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I… — Charlotte Brontë Time Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte Adoration Copy Share Image
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so… — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“Till now I had only heard, seen, moved - followed up and down where I was led or dragged - watched event… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“We have none of us long to live. Let us help each other through seasons of want and woe as well as… — Charlotte Brontë Philosophy Copy Share Image
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ...… — Charlotte Brontë Outlook-and-attitude Copy Share Image
“Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.” — Charlotte Brontë Judaism Copy Share Image
“I think I shall like you again, and yet again: and I will make you confess I do not only like, but… — Charlotte Brontë Truth Copy Share Image
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd,… — Charlotte Bronte Arms Copy Share Image
“It little mattered whether my curiosity irritated him: I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one… — Charlotte Brontë Curiosity Copy Share Image
“These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my… — Charlotte Brontë Betrayal Copy Share Image
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now… — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. — Charlotte Bronte Different Copy Share Image
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in… — Charlotte Brontë Coming home Copy Share Image
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte Education Copy Share Image
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte Love Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are… — Charlotte Brontë Mind and body Copy Share Image
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. — Charlotte Bronte Disappointed Copy Share Image
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
“Once I have fairly seized you, to have and to hold, I'll just -figuratively speaking - attach you to a chain like… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never… — Charlotte Brontë Brontes Copy Share Image